Mahlet Cuff
DIRECTOR
Mahlet Cuff
YEAR
2026
COUNTRY
Canada
RUNTIME
5
minutes
LANGUAGE
English
PRODUCER
Mahlet Cuff
An energetic, sensory meditation on the connections between a variety of Black diasporic dance scenes and music genres. Archival images of dancehall and voguing play off the sounds of house, footwerk, and spoken word to comprise an homage to the voices left unheard and unacknowledged.
Mix Alum
US Premiere
Mahlet Cuff is a multidisciplinary artist and arts cultural worker based in Winnipeg Manitoba (Treaty 1). Through an ethnographic based practice they are interested in themes of memory and erasure in order to make sense of the Black Queer diasporic communities they are a part of and engage with. By using Black feminist citational praxis and interrogating their own personal familial archives, they create reimagined Black Queer Diasporic dance and music histories by visually and sonically collaging moving images and sound. Cuff’s work has been screened and exhibited in nationally and internationally. Their video piece titled UTOPIA (an ode to the past, present and future) was shortlisted for the 2025 FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video. Their film work is distributed by VTape.
